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What's the difference between a hotel, a motel, and an inn?
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Ok... Here's the final and right answer. I own hotels and motels. The difference between the terms has evolved. The current meaning is if you're full service (ie. restaurant and bar within the property you're a hotel. A motel is limited service (ie. no restaurant on the property).
It has nothing to do with entrance of the door (interior or exterior), lobby, or parking your car in front of the door or away in other areas.
It it true that Hotels are more expensive to build than motels. Therefore, they charge you more. As for crime or slummy places, there is actually more crime and in hotels than motels. Hotels have more money around to steal from.
Your motels names you are looking for are Fairfield in Marriot, Holiday Inn Express by Intercontinental, Comfor Inn by Choice, Super 8 by Wyndham, Motel 6 by Accor, Hilton Garden, Courtyard by Marriot.
Some hotel names you may have seen are Holiday Inn, Clarion, Embassy Suites, Hilton, Wyndham, ...
There are more motels than hotel in the market because most people are just looking for a place to rest their head. In fact, the motels have gotten so demanding they are actually better deals than hotels. Have you ever eaten food at a hotel. I generally prefer to eat at a franchise restaurant (ie. Chili's, TGIF, Ruby Tuesday, Outback, ....)
I hope this helps. Good luck.
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A hotel is a commercial establishment offering lodging to travelers and sometimes to permanent residents, and often having restaurants, meeting rooms, stores, etc., that are available to the general public.
A motel is a hotel providing travelers with lodging and free parking facilities, typically a roadside hotel having rooms adjacent to an outside parking area or an urban hotel offering parking within the building.
An inn is a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, esp. travelers; small hotel.
Definitions found at www.dictionary.com
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my uncle told me that the difference between a hotel and a motel was that hotels had cards that went into the doors and motels had keys. but i have no idea. hope i helped.=)Amanda
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Nowadays, the difference is mostly blurred. It's whatever the owner decides to call the place.
"Inn" is an older word, dating back to the middle ages. Because of that, it tends to evoke a certain nostalgia and an idea of personal, friendly service. Holiday Inn notwithstanding, an inn is usually a standalone business and not part of a chain. It's not used much anymore as a generally descriptive word (no one says "I made reservations at the inn").
A "Motel" is usually descriptive of a cheap place to park your car and spend the night. People usually don't do extended stays at a motel; they drive in at night and are on their way the next morning. It's a place to sleep, not a place to stay. It's a "motor hotel".
A "Hotel" is generally used to describe a place where one might stay multiple nights, and it generally has more amenities such as a bar, lounge, pool, restaurant, meeting rooms, ballrooms, and so on. It's also a generic term to mean anywhere that one can rent a bedroom on a daily basis.
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A motel is a piece of shit. An inn is just a little higher than that, and a hotel is a money raper. Meaning it rapes you of your money since it's like 395730578385 million dollars per night.
♥T!NA
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hotels are when you actually go into the building and most likely take the elevator so this means you park outside (or underground) take all your suitcases and shit out, like an apartment building except youre tourists.
motels are when you park outside your room their like usually townhouses, and cheaper then hotels.
and inns are just like hotels but a bit less fancier.
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So far as I'm aware, it is like this:
A hotel is pricey. A motel moderately priced. An Inn is the same as a motel basically.
Hotel = Marriott, Hilton
Motel = Motel 6, Super 8
Inn? = Holiday Inn
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Wow you have no idea how many times i asked my dad the same question haha. Supposedly a motel is acceced from the outside(you can see all the doors) Motels are generaly cheaper and more made for short stays like 1 nighters. Hotels can only be accesed from the inside thus meaning better security and made for longer stays. I think inns and hotels are the exact same. Hotels are generaly more expensive and a little cleaner and better kept. If i find out any more i'll try to let you know haha.
Hope i helped a bit!!
Becs <3
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I don't know about an inn. but Hotel is basically a much better version of a motel
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